Notes

Katharine Beutner (BA Smith College; MA, PhD University of Texas at Austin) taught
from 2011-2013 as a visiting assistant professor at the College of Wooster, then moved
to Honolulu for four years as an assistant professor of creative writing at UH Mānoa
before returning to Wooster in 2017. Prof. Beutner is a novelist, essayist, and organizer,
and studies eighteenth-century British literature, women's writing, genre, and narrative
structure. Her first novel Alcestis was published in 2010 by Soho Press. She has written
a second historical novel, Killingly, and is currently at work on a novel about climate
justice protesters tentatively entitled Blockadia. Prof. Beutner lives in Tremont
with her partner and two dignified old-lady cats.